QUETTA, Aug 13 (APP):Speaker Balochistan Assembly Captain (retired) Abdul Khaliq Khan Achakzai on Tuesday said that we do pledge during celebration of Independence Day that we would make every possible effort for the development of Pakistan.
Talking to APP regarding the 78th Independence Day, he said that the young generation should remember that if today we were breathing in a free country, it was because of those martyrs who sacrificed their yesterday for our today.
Freedom is a greater blessing than anything in the world, celebrating Independence Day is also mandatory for all of us, he said.Speaker Balochistan Assembly said that the foundation of Pakistan included the blood of millions of martyrs, Muslims made countless sacrifices for an independent state.
He said that history is witnessed that even when the train from India reached Lahore full of dead bodies of Muslims, the Muslims here provided protection to the Hindus and people of other religions living in Pakistan.
He said that even today atrocities were being committed on Muslims in India, Occupied Kashmir was also one of the stories of atrocities in India.
Today, when we see Indian brutality in Occupied Kashmir, we realize that freedom is a blessing, he noted.
He said that we could never take away the freedom gift that our Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah had given to us but we would satisfy the soul of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah by making Pakistan Jinnah’s Pakistan.
He said that freedom was a great blessing and its protection was our collective and national responsibility, the value and cost of freedom should be asked from the Muslims of Occupied Kashmir and Palestine who were victims of oppression by India and Israel.
Abdul Khaliq Achakzai said that while celebrating the independence, we should pledge that we would never allow the integrity of the beloved country to be compromised and could stand side by side with the Pakistan Army, Police and law enforcement agencies when the time comes who were against terrorists, we pledged that we would not hesitate to make any sacrifice for our country.
Captain (retd) Abdul Khaliq said that the enthusiastic participation of the youth in the Independence Day programs was welcome.
He said that the young generation should remember that if we were breathing freedom today, this freedom included the blood of elders, freedom was a great blessing, the value of freedom was known to those who were living the life of slavery.
He said that if we see the oppression of Muslims in India, the atrocities of Israel in Palestine and the Indian occupation of Kashmir, we should thank God for breathing in free air.
The future of Pakistan is related to the youth and the youth must come forward with positive thinking to maintain the freedom of Pakistan because it will be the youth who will take charge of the future of Pakistan, he said